HOLLYWOOD FLASHBACK: Stars USED To Live Like They LOVED America

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HOLLYWOOD FLASHBACK: Stars USED To Live Like They LOVED America

 

Do you know this?

Maybe, at some point in your life, you heard about a movie called Mutiny On the Bounty.

It’s been made three times, 1935, 1962 and 1984 (as The Bounty). There are famous characters such as Captain Bligh, and Mr. Christian, he being the one being called in the oft-quoted “Mr. Christian, come here.”. The interesting thing about these films is that they are all based on a true occurrence. If you are of a certain age, you might have seen the 1935 version, which starred Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, as Bligh and Christian, respectively. The Bounty, a man-o-war of the British navy, was commanded by Bligh, who was a martinet beyond the meaning of the word. Mr. Christian decided one day that he had had enough of the stern-beyond-words discipline of the captain and precipitated a mutiny. The mutiny occurred in 1789 and those men who chose to remain with Bligh were put in a longboat and set adrift. Bligh, being the great sea captain that he was, managed to travel to a British port in 1790 and from there to England. A trial was held by the Admiralty and Bligh was found to be “not at fault”. The men who stayed with Christian eventually settled on Pitcairn Island, and their descendants are there even to this day.

http://clashdaily.com/2017/05/hollywood-flashback-stars-used-live-like-loved-america/

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When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour, a CBS radio legend named Norman Corwin was finishing
the script to a planned special program commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Bill of Rights.
Corwin had just been let go by CBS at a time when the network feared his signature productions
on Columbia Workshop and 26 By Corwin were too "experimental."

Corwin finished We Hold These Truths and the broadcast was eight days after Pearl. He stuck
to his original plan to have James Stewart narrate the program. The talent he lined up for the
broadcast was a deft blend of radio and film stars, and from things I've read about it over the years
(fair disclosure: I'm an old-time radio nut) the only trouble Corwin had was deciding whom among
numerous stars not to use for the broadcast, there were enough volunteering to do it: Edward
Arnold, Lionel Barrymore, Walter Brennan, Bob Burns, Dane Clark, Walter Huston, Elliott Lewis (his
name may not be much remembered today but he was a titan of classic network radio, as an actor
and director/producer), Marjorie Main, Edward G. Robinson, Rudy Vallee, and Orson Welles. Not to
mention Leopold Stokowski leading the New York Philharmonic through “The Star Spangled Banner"
and an epilogue with FDR. An estimated sixty million people heard the broadcast live.

Norman Corwin, We Hold These Truths (Combined networks: CBS, NBC Red, NBC Blue,
Mutual), 15 December 1941